The government has geared to come out with a uniform and single licence fee for telecom service providers soon, currently in the range of 6-10% of the revenue of these companies.The Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behuria has not divulged much detail, but it is believed that the unified licence fee could be nearly 9%. Following the internal telecom operator report, the government had to, in-principal, agree for de-linking the spectrum from the licence.
Conceding to the Subodh Kumar committee report, DoT has suggested de-linking spectrum from the licence and proposal for the same has been sent to TRAI for its opinion in the context.
It is also believed that there is a possibility of giving conditional licence to successful Wimax bidders due to shortage of spectrum.
Meanwhile, the department of space has also raised the concerns of interference of the spectrum band. It has been asked to release spectrum for Wimax auction, with its own satellite broadcast operations.